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People

Ivan, Julio, Dennis, Mike

Past Events

Upcoming events

  • House Restaurant Tour this Saturday
    • Contact Dennis for details
    • Someone needs to start a Oakland's Informal Economy page
    • Underground restaurants, other businesses that don't have formal ways to get started
    • Garage Sales
    • Populate the page with information from House Restaurant tour
  • Lauren wants to restart Sunday History Editathons, contact her if you are interested
  • MLK Cafe - Longfellow Editathon.
    • Potentially bringing Ethiopian/Eritrean community
    • Tentatively scheduled for Tuesday June 25.
    • Join us, contact Ivan or Julio
  • Chavez Branch Editathon
    • Tuesdays, the library is open until 8pm (Ivan works there)
    • Tentatively planned for Tuesday in July 16, 6-8pm

  • Saturday, July 20th, 1:30-5:30p: District 5-themed editathon at the Peralta Hacienda Historical Park

  • Housing Justice Editathon: Causa Justa 
    • ​Dennis emailed Patricia Zamora (Tenant Rights Resource), but no response yet
    • Dennis will follow-up again via email
    • Organizations who can mobilize participants.
    • See Allies Page
    • Diana will start a Planning Page. No Update. 
    • Aim for July
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights Editathon
    • Vicky can start planning in July, aim for August, No Update
  • Oral History Event @ Sudoroom
    • Ivan will email about Tina Tamale oral history. No Update
    • Ivan will also reach out to Estelle Clemens. Community Action Partnership Experience on War on Poverty
    • Grocery Outlet Cheese?
    • Aiming for August

  • Youth Radio - just starting conversation. Kids in finals and vacation. No kids right now. working on a new website. Will be good to continue the conversation.

    • launching an app where kids submit their own stories. and how that might be tied to the wiki. No Update

Open Action items

  • Vicky: Techliminal event
  • ACTION: Need to Make Templates look like Templates. 
  • ACTION: Need to consolidate Events pages?
    • Future Events Ideas - just ideas....not yet set.
    • Events that are upcoming / past
    • What we have been up to - features of past events
    • Events by Month - may need to clean up events listings for current year to focus on significant historical events (like Brown dissolves redevelopment funds)  rather than periodic happenings (like Dan Kalb Listening Session on Feb 28, 2013)
    • Event Notes Pages - Notes from meetings attended.
  • Oakland Local Article: How can Wiki be Useful to Educators? (Lani)
    • how teachers can use Oakland Wiki.
    • Parts of the curriculum that Oakland Wiki can fulfill? (History)
  • Possibility of hosting meetings at LOLSpace once in a while?

Event Ideas

We want more people to take the lead in organizing events. 

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